What motivates people to organize communal living themselves? What ideals are behind it, how do they finance themselves, and how does life in a community work? Based on six self-managed residential buildings in Austria from the past 40 years, the documentary film "Der Stoff, aus dem Träume sind" (The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of) sets out to find answers. Filmmakers Lotte Schreiber and Michael Rieper tell these six stories by staying very close to the protagonists.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

A Zen priest in San Francisco and cookbook author use Zen Buddhism and cooking to relate to everyday...

One billion people on our planet—one in six—live in shantytowns, slums or squats. Slums: Cities of T...

This film is a portrait of unique cultural space for Spirits, Gods and People. While permanent theat...

Green Valley was a housing commission estate in western Sydney, much maligned by the media of the da...

Egypt's only modernist architect Hassan Fathy (1900-1989) was committed to ecology and sustainabilit...

The British architect based in Stockholm looks back on major projects of a long career inspired by E...

Brazilian architecture in the 20th century influenced generations of architects worldwide. But there...

Documentary about Spanish architect Antoni Gaudi made for the BBC series "Visions of Space".

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master ...

Documentary glimpses from Alt & Neu (Teuchtler) record store, where love for cinema and music unite ...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

Danish documentary about the disobedient schoolboy with a talent for painting, who became one of Den...